well I'm about to pack up the computer and pack the car. You know our great deal on a U-Haul trailer? Well I guess you get what you pay for...it doesn't ride very well, for one thing, and the posted max. speed is 45 mph. 45. There's no way. My dad's willing to bump it up to 55, but when you compare it to our normal speed of 75....well, you do the math. It's going to be a long drive down to Waverly...even longer for them, though, when they have to drive back with the EMPTY trailer. Yikes! Alrighty then...see ya at Wartburg!

Only one more day of work...only one more day of work. Yess! Today our gas price actually went DOWN! Unbelievable! We went from $2.99 to $2.79. Needless to say, it was a madhouse. Luckily, though, I spent the day putting away our load. It was great. I only had to ring for about 30 minutes....otherwise I was out on the floor and not dealing with people. Glorious. I also convinced my manager to sell me some food from the store at the wholesale price. If you ever go to an SA, go to the rollergrill and look for the chicken and cheese "Tornados." It's a mexican food that's in the shape of a hotdog...but like in a fried tortilla shell. They are absolutely AMAZING! As a customer they cost $1.05 each. I think a box holds something like 20 - 30 Tornados....I was able to get the box for $12.05. AMAZING! Now, if I can get them down to Wartburg without them thawing too much, I'll be good. They're going to be perfect for a late-night snack.

In other Wartburg news, I had some good news and some bad news from one of my roommates today. I called him while at work because he had called me at about 3 a.m. a couple nights ago as he was walking home from a party in our suite and was wondering when I was coming back to the burg. So he was telling me about our set-up and I found out that we don't have a big T.V. in our main room. That's trouble. Watching Sports Center is a must for our room. The good news is, though, that they never put anybody in our room as the 6th person. You know how I mentioned a few weeks ago that one of our roommates was backing out of living with us, leaving an open spot and the probability of some random weird person getting put with us? Well it didn't happen. So now we have 5 people with 6 bedrooms. Hmmm...what to do with that last open room...what to do, what to do. hahaha...glorious!

Speaking of which...I'm moving in Sunday Afternoon. You know how gas prices are amazingly high right now? Well we decided NOT to take two cars down to school this year, even though all of my stuff won't fit in one car. Nope, instead we're renting a U-Haul trailer. For $10 bucks. What a deal. It's an open trailer, so hopefully it won't rain or anything, but we should be good to go.

I'm still a little aprehensive about going back, especially since I already have homework...goshdangit....but I think it's going to be alright. I hope so, at least.

Here's my take on the downtown Lakeville bar, Babe's: If you're going there on a weekday, non-theme night...it's ideal. Just the locals and it's low-key. Otherwise it's a bust. My brother and I went there tonight and it was great. Super cheap beer, darts, and pool. Good times. I lost at darts, but won at pool. It really was a good one last hurrah with him before school started....it also made me excited for the good side of school starting. The friends, the fun, and the beer. What more do you need?

Of course, it also reminded me of the bad stuff as well...but you'll hear all about that in the next few weeks, I'm sure. If that isn't a cliff-hanger I don't know what is!

Alright, alright, alright...try to contain yourself as I try to contain myself...by keeping the blood from dripping down my neck from behind my left ear....because yes, I'm still bleeding. Good stuff. So here it is. The answers. I think maybe....MAYBE one of you actually care. But oh well.
1. Master Caster
2. Mexico Texaco
3. Swiss Miss
4. Fiction Diction
5. Queer Beer
6. Moon Spoon
7. Paper Caper
8. Lotion Potion
9. Sage Rage
10. Boring Scoring

And there it is. After I posted those, I tried them out on my parents....amazingly enough my mom did better than my dad, but that was probably because he was doing other things at the same time.

Yup...huh...I don't really have much else to say. Gas went way up, but everybody knows that. Started to get packed and stuff...k. that's it. I can't stretch it out any more. Peace.

So I had this thing behind my ear. A bump. I knew it wasn't cancerous or anything, but I figured I should go to the hospital before school starts again and find out what it is. So I went to Urgent Care this morning, since I didn't work, and had the Doc check it out. He looked at it. Knew what it was, but said that I shouldn't just let it be. So......I got to experience a miny surgery right then and there. w00t. Not really. Then I got to sit there for about 20 minutes longer to wait for it to stop bleeding because they don't want it to heal just yet, so they didn't stitch it up. Now I have this big bandage behind my ear that can't get wet...and I can't switch it until Wednesday morn. But I work tomorrow...and I'm going to have to wash my hair in the sink tonight...since I can't get it wet. What a falderal. I just hope it's all good by the time I get to school.

Hmmm...I had something else to post, but I got nothing. I'll put up those answers tomorrow. Peace.

aaaaaaaaaaand I'm still awake. Yeah. I was thinking of something else. Tonight while at work, I was at the store for a total of an hour and a half all by myself. Luckily, though, it was pretty slow. So while I was there I played a word game with myself....I'm not sure why I thought of it, since it's been years since I played it, but I have a couple for you...they're easy enough.

Ok, the game is called "Hink-Pink." I give a clue, and the answer is a rhyming phrase. In the case of a Hink-Pink, it's a one-syllable rhyme. There's also a Hinky-Pinky, two syllables, a Hinkaty-Pinkaty, three syllables, and so on. So. Here's the example:
Hink-Pink: A Salmon cassarole.

Got it? Can you think of the answer?

Fish Dish.

One last note - although the clue tends to put the words in order for you, that's not always the case, but it's somewhere to start.

Ok, here are 10 more. See if you can get them.
1. Hinky-Pinky: A professional fisherman.
2. Hinkaty-Pinkaty: A southwestern gas station.
3. Hink-Pink: A strike-out in the Alps (Tough clue, but it's the best I could do)
4. Hinky-Pinky: Untrue words. OR Untrue text.
5. Hink-Pink: Homosexual Ale.
6. Hink-Pink: Astronomical satellite cuddling.
7. Hinky-Pinky: Document shennanigans. OR A literature escapade. (Another tough clue. Focus on the second half to get the first)
8. Hinky-Pinky: A magical mixture for soft hands.
9. Hink-Pink: Herbal anger.
10. Hinky-Pinky: Uninteresting points in basketball. (that was bad, but I was pressed for time.)

Have fun.

I had such a bad headache tonight. It started small early on in my shift, probably from tossing my head back in an attempt to get the hair out of my eyes. But by the time I left work it hurt so much I was nauseaus. It was so bad my neck, nose, and even teeth hurt by this headache. I tried to check my email, but ended up just going to bed.....knowing fully that I'd just wake up again in a while because it was too early for me to sleep soundly. And here I am. Wide awake.

One of my roommates called me today to see when I was moving in to my room at school. He was already there. I was like "uuuuhhhhh.....dude, classes don't start for like another 10 days. I'm not moving in until NEXT Sunday." He was kind of bummed, said we were having a big party the Sat. before. To which I replied, "Well we'll just have to have another one, won't we?" He agreed. Good stuff. There's one thing I do know, though. And this has happened for the last two years and will happen again this year. During one of the days (nights) prior to classes starting, I'll drink FAR too much and end up puking. It could be classified as gluttony, I suppose....but it's the excitement of being back on campus and being around friends. Last year I came back to our room late at night to see 4 of my roommates passed out in the main room. Not 5 minutes later I woke them all up to the pleasant sounds of my vomit, because I chose to leave the bathroom door open. Hahahaha...they were pissed. It was funny.

Ok, I think that's all I got. I'm going to do some regular maintenance on my computer right now, I think. But I've got a question for you. Brothers especially, if I post a pic of any of you on here can I leave your face unblurred? Is that a question of ethics, or is it ok to post anybody's pic on here...do I need their permission first? I wondered about that with the on picture I posted on here...but also realized that picture was available to the public when it was put up on the wall outside of Res Life...plus, who reads this that it would matter to anyway, right? Ok, that's my question to you all. Peace.